Free Quote by Miriam Toews Download Open image “In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.” — Miriam Toews ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Free Freedom Life My life Raw material Use Writing Writing fiction
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Your freedom as a writer is not freedom of expression in the sense of wild blurting; you may not let rip. It is life… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
There is freedom in being a writer and writing. It is fulfilling your function. I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want.… — Natalie Copy Share Image
Freedom to tell any story I want, with all the imaginary tools of my trade, is why I love writing novels. I love taking… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
I completely identify with finding freedom in boundaries. That's why I tend to have more freedom when I write nonfiction over fiction: because I'm… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master. Taking inward distance, we thus become the authors… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
Her faith in a loving and forgiving God is strong, but she worships laughter. — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
“I heard Tash say: Nomi, you’re sad man. Get a grip. Walk away. What have I taught you? And I thought: You taught me… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
“Where are they going to get a camera? I asked. I don't know, said Noehmi. They'll probably get sidetracked along the way. Or they'll… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
“Nomi, he said, you just need to wake up to the fact that other people need to know where you're going. But there's nobody… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
I would never want to deny my Mennonite background and culture; I'll always feel like and be identified as a Mennonite and therefore possess… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
“When I opened up the bottle of wine, Thebes said whoa, you yanked that cork out of there like you were saving it from… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
The writing life is one long, never-ending search for narrative. Well, it's not even a conscious searching. It happens even while you're busy buying… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
“I think Ray might have wanted a son. One night when I was seven or eight I announced to my family that I wanted… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
The theme of sisters - of missing sisters, of needing sisters, the special love that sisters share or the antagonism sisters share - is… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
“..I followed her out the door and watched her walk down the road towards home, hers, and the bright yard light, and her own… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
“someday you’ll be gone, you’ll be dust, and then even less than dust. Nothing. There’s no other place to be. This world is good… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
I free slaves because I believe we are all created equal. I just can't think of anything that has a higher purpose than putting… — Virginia Williams Copy Share Image
There are certain things you must not say in spite of the fact that supposedly democracy means free speech. No. You are not allowed… — Chris Eubank Sr Copy Share Image
If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Grace is the power of the Holy Spirit coming to us free of charge to enable you to do with ease what you could… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“Why is it," she asked, snuggling closer, "that I so often imagine myself running away and running free?” — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
My work is a love for me; I'd do it for free, but don't tell my bosses. — Chick Hearn Copy Share Image
We want to free our citizens from the burden of excessive paper documents in every office. We want paperless transactions. We will set up… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image